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Handels x Mejan 2025

Welcome to the five-year anniversary of Handels x Mejan: an annual student curated exhibition with four newly graduated students from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (also known as Mejan) at the SSE Campus.The exhibition is curated by the students in Art Division, SSE (also known as Handels), and will take place on campus (Sveavägen 65) during the month of May

Sprawling brings together paintings, sculptures, coal-based works and robotics in an exhibition that explores expansion in all its forms—physical, conceptual, and emotional. The selected works stretch across mediums and materials, pushing against boundaries and challenging notions of permanence, control, and order. From the raw, elemental quality of coal to the mechanical precision of a robotic gesture, Sprawling captures the tension between organic and constructed, past and future. The exhibition invites viewers to navigate a landscape where ideas multiply, structures dissolve, and form is always in transformation. This year's Handels x Mejan features the artists; Christopher Robin Nordström, Simon Dahlgren Strååt, Lina Lundquist & Roda Adballe.

Find all previous editions of Handels x Mejan here.

Handels x Mejan is curated by SSE students from the Art Division – a student organization within the student union SASSE. This year our curators are Pelle Avemo Hådell and Emelie Backman. Heads of Art Division are Clara Prandell and Elsa Saxon.

ARTISTS AND ARTWORKS

CURATORS

Pelle Avemo Hådell och Emelie Backman, Heads of Exhibitions, together with Clara Prander, Head of Art Division

Pelle Avemo Hådell and Emelie Backman. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist (Head of Communications, Art Division)

Elsa Saxon and Clara Prander, Heads of Art Division. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist.

Opening of the exhibition on May 12, 2025

From left: artists Lina Lundquist & Christopher Robin Nordström together with Clara Prander, Head of Art Division, and Handels x Mejan curators Emelie Backman and Pelle Avemo Hådell


Exhibition view of Cicli Gabriel by Christopher Robin Nordström. Photo: Ninhursag Tadaros. In picture: Stina Stjernkvist.

Photo: Stina Stjernkvist.


Artist Simon Dahlgren Strååt together with SSE student curators Emelie Backman and Pelle Avemo Hådell after installation of his work Hunger (2025). Photo: Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe.